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India rules out active role in Lanka India fully supports the peace process in Sri Lanka but will not play an active role because it may “complicate” the situation, Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said yesterday.
Mr. Mukherjee said during a question-and-answer session at a high-level security meeting in Singapore that “India is not actively participating in this process” because of ethnic reasons and its proximity to Sri Lanka. “India believes a “pro-active and active participation will complicate the issue instead of resolving it, but we stand fully behind the peace process which has been initiated,” the AFP news agency quoted the minister as saying. India has in the past offered support for the peace process but refrained from getting involved in the conflict following its disastrous military intervention during the 1980s. |
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